Long Press Button on MAUI Android

I will give this a try. Thanks!

I am not seeing a Pressed and Released properties or methods on the button touch behavior. Can you clarify?

I also don't see it in the documentation:

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/communitytoolkit/maui/behaviors/touch-behavior?tabs=toucheffect-xaml%2Ctouchbehavior-xaml

Hello @Tony Pitman !

Thanks for pointing that out — you’re absolutely right, PressedCommand and ReleasedCommand aren’t available in the current TouchBehavior. I appreciate the clarification, and I’ll update my answer accordingly to avoid confusion.

Thank you again!

Sadly this does not answer my need. This only gives a single call to the long press.

I need to get a REPEATING call to something as I hold the button down so I can increment a value.

The long press only fires once and doesn't detect when the user releases the button as far as I can tell.

I tried the LongPressedCompleted event, but that just fires once as soon as the timeout expires.

Does anyone know of a way to get the pressed and released messages cross platform?

Hello @Tony Pitman !

Since .NET MAUI doesn’t natively support continuous or repeating actions while holding down a button (unlike WPF’s convenient RepeatButton), you can still achieve this behavior by combining the TouchBehavior for press detection with a System.Threading.Timer to handle the repetition.

Here’s a code-behind example that implement the repeating action in your page:

using CommunityToolkit.Maui.Behaviors;
using CommunityToolkit.Maui.Core;
using System.ComponentModel;
using System.Threading;
using Microsoft.Maui.Dispatching;
 
public partial class MainPage : ContentPage
{
    private Timer? _repeatTimer;
    private int _counter = 0;
    private readonly int _initialDelayMs = 100;   // Delay before the first repeat
    private readonly int _repeatIntervalMs = 200; // Interval for subsequent repeats
 
    public MainPage()
    {
        InitializeComponent();
        TouchBehavior.CurrentTouchStateChanged += OnTouchStateChanged;
    }
 
    private void OnTouchStateChanged(object? sender, TouchStateChangedEventArgs e)
    {
        switch (e.State)
        {
            case TouchState.Pressed:
                // Start the repeating timer when the button is held down
                _counter = 0; // Reset if needed
                _repeatTimer?.Dispose(); // Dispose any existing timer
                _repeatTimer = new Timer(OnRepeatTick, null, _initialDelayMs, _repeatIntervalMs);
                break;
 
            case TouchState.Default:
                // Stop the timer when the button is released
                _repeatTimer?.Dispose();
                _repeatTimer = null;
                UpdateUI(); // Optional final update
                break;
        }
    }
 
    private void OnRepeatTick(object? state)
    {
        // Increment logic (ensure UI updates run on the main thread)
        _counter++;
        MainThread.BeginInvokeOnMainThread(UpdateUI);
    }
 
    private void UpdateUI()
    {
        CounterLabel.Text = $"Value: {_counter}";
    }
 
    protected override void OnDisappearing()
    {
        base.OnDisappearing();
        _repeatTimer?.Dispose();
    }
}

This pattern gives you true press-and-hold repetition with precise timing—hold the button and watch the counter increase continuously.

I hope this helps!